Originally posted by CarpePoon:
Originally posted by XKontour98:
why the hell was a 15 year old driving a vehicle full of children! Let alone driving unsupervised at all?


I feel even more badly that the driver has to live with this on his conscious!


I think it goes up the chain the dead beat parents in this matter.. some people should just stop having kids at some point.



They were anything but dead-beat parents. The family was a foster family, regularly takin in children that weren't their own, and half of the children in the car were either adopted or being adopted. 15 year old children drive out to pick up their siblings from school all the time, certainly hundreds of thousands of times a day in this country. Welcome to modern reality, where both parents virtually have to work, often leaving a minor sibling to do much of the child-care, particularly between about 2pm and 6pm.

Whether the driver was of legal age or not is really a moot point. The chances of an experienced driver noticing a truck barreling down on them at at least 60mph that wasn't stopping and not being so close to the bus that they could still move out of the way in time, is virtually nil.

Even if you noticed the truck a full 500 feet away, and even if while it was that far away you knew then that it wasn't going to stop in time, you'd still have less than 5 seconds to move your car. And if you had to reverse to get out of the way (which you'd most people would have to do, particularly with a big-ass Bonneville), there's little chance you could do it in time. In reality you'd probably notice the truck had no chance of stopping less than 250 feet away, leaving you little than a couple seconds to move.

Even if she had moved the semi would have struck the bus (harder than it already did, which still pushed it 200 feet from a full stop) and would have definitely killed every child on that bus, leaving a death toll even higher than the 7 as it stands now.

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